Poettering: Revisiting how we put together Linux systems

Posted Sep 4, 2014 21:54 UTC (Thu) by Wol (subscriber, #4433)
In reply to: Poettering: Revisiting how we put together Linux systems by nix
Parent article: Poettering: Revisiting how we put together Linux systems

Why is it hard? The config file is best as text :-) and should contain a revision number.

And more to the point, old config versions shouldn't be wiped as a matter of course, they should exist in parallel. Of course, this then has the side effect that when the second, older version gets upgraded it doesn't upgrade the old config but will spot and use the pre-existing newer config. Is that good or bad? I don't know.

Cheers,
Wol